New Delhi: Pongal, the vibrant Tamil harvest festival celebrated with immense fervour across South India, marks the joyous onset of the Tamil month Thai. Falling around mid-January, it honours the sun ...

New Delhi: As Pongal 2026 approaches, the vibrant tradition of Bhogi Kolam designs sets the tone for this joyous Tamil harvest festival, marking the first day with themes of renewal and cleansing.

This Margazhi morning sent me into a state of nostalgia as I drew a simple ezhai kolam in my apartment corridor. It brought back all those fond times and tiny tales told to me by family elders during ...

Ganesh Chaturthi 2025 will be celebrated on Wednesday, August 27, 2025, with Madhyahna Ganesh Puja Muhurat falling between 11:05 AM and 1:40 PM. The ten-day celebration will conclude with Ganesh ...

Krishna Janmashatmi is celebrated as the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna. This marks the 5252nd birth anniversary of the lord who is also considered to be an avatar of Lord Vishnu. Krishna was born ...

The chanting from a distant temple was the only sound on an otherwise-still winter morning in Chennai. The holy Tamil month of music and devotion, Margazhi, had begun – and every day, in the early ...

In days of yore, kolam were really a part of everyday life, the lady of the house drawing them with white rice flour every dawn as the first rays of sunlight gently touched the earth. Through the day, ...